Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/24

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Subject: [Leica] my 2 cents on the Capa ?
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Fri Mar 24 17:07:41 2006
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At 03:30 PM 3/24/06 -0500, Walt Johnson wrote:

>4. All it would take to prove anything related to the image is a contact 
>sheet of those films still in existence. Until then,  much like our dear 
>departed friend Johnny said, "if it don't fit you must acquit". Even 
>admiring Robert Capa work  as much as I does not mean he didn't get 
>caught up in a situation that was out of his control.

In accordance with the custom of the times, Capa's editors had destroyed
the negatives and contact sheets before he even learned of the fame of the
picture.  Blame them, not him!  They were long in the trash when he asked
for them.

Marc

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